Django has a built in sitemap generation framework that uses views to build a sitemap on the fly. Sometimes your dataset is too large for this to work in a web application. Here is a management command that will generate a static sitemap and index for your models. You can extend it to handle multiple Models.
import os.path
from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand, CommandError
from django.contrib.sitemaps import GenericSitemap
from django.contrib.sites.models import Site
from django.template import loader
from django.utils.encoding import smart_str
from myproject.models import MyModel
class Command(BaseCommand):
help = """Generates the sitemaps for the site, pass in a output directory
"""
def handle(self, *args, **options):
if len(args) != 1:
raise CommandError('You need to specify a output directory')
directory = args[0]
if not os.path.isdir(directory):
raise CommandError('directory %s does not exist' % directory)
#modify to meet your needs
sitemap = GenericSitemap({'queryset': MyModel.objects.order_by('id'), 'date_field':'modified' })
current_site = Site.objects.get_current()
index_files = []
paginator = sitemap.paginator
for page_num in range(1, paginator.num_pages+1):
filename = 'sitemap_%s.xml' % page_num
file_path = os.path.join(directory,filename)
index_files.append("http://%s/%s" % (current_site.domain, filename))
print "Generating sitemap %s" % file_path
with open(file_path, 'w') as site_mapfile:
site_mapfile.write(smart_str(loader.render_to_string('sitemap.xml', {'urlset': sitemap.get_urls(page_num)})))
sitemap_index = os.path.join(directory,'sitemap_index.xml')
with open(sitemap_index, 'w') as site_index:
print "Generating sitemap_index.xml %s" % sitemap_index
site_index.write(loader.render_to_string('sitemap_index.xml', {'sitemaps': index_files}))
